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In the Indian Premier League (IPL 2025), 50 matches of the league stage are over. On Thursday, Mumbai won the sixth consecutive win. The team defeated Rajasthan Royals by 100 runs. With this, the RR became the second team to be out of the playoff race. On the other hand, Mumbai has reached the top of the points table.
Current situation of points table …
Rajasthan out of playoff race, Mumbai tops
Mumbai, playing the 11th match of the season at Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur, scored 217 runs losing 2 wickets. In response, Rajasthan Royals were all out for 117 runs in 16.1 overs.
- Rajasthan lost 8th in 11 matches. The team is at number 8 with 6 points from just 3 wins and was out of the playoff race. Rajasthan will now win 12 points even after winning the remaining three matches, which is not enough to qualify.
- With this victory, Mumbai has strengthened the path of its playoffs. The team won the seventh win in 11 matches. The team reached the top of the points table with 14 points with 4 necklaces. Now the team has to win only 2 out of the remaining 3 matches to qualify on their own.
Hyderabad will have to win all matches The GT will match SRH in IPL today. Hyderabad is at number 9 with 6 points with 3 wins and 6 defeats in 9 matches. After winning today’s match, the team will maintain hopes of reaching the playoffs. SRH will have to win the remaining 4 matches again and keep their run rate better than the rest of the teams. However, if Hyderabad loses today, the playoff race will make it difficult. Then the team will have to depend on other teams along with winning the rest of the matches.
Gujarat can reach the top Gujarat Titans have 12 points from 6 wins and 3 defeats in 9 matches. After winning today’s match, the team can reach number-1 with 14 points. For this, the team will have to keep its runrate above Mumbai. If GT lost today, the team will have to win 3 of the remaining 4 matches to make a place in the playoffs on their own.
Surya becomes orange cap holder
Suryakumar Yadav of Mumbai became the top scorer of the season. He has now scored 475 runs in 11 matches. Sai Sudarshan is on the second position of Gujarat, he has 456 runs in 9 matches. After him, Virat Kohli of RCB has scored 10 matches 443 runs. GT’s Sai Sudarshan can get an orange cap by scoring 19 runs today.
Just one wicket away from the famous purple cap
RCB’s Josh Hazlewood is the top wicket with 18 wickets. The famous Krishna of Gujarat remains second with 17 wickets. Today, they will come first as soon as they take one wicket. Trent Bolt of Mumbai dismissed 3 batter from Rajasthan yesterday. He has now finished third on this leader board with 16 wickets.
Puran hit the most sixes
LSG’s Nicholas Puran is the most six -hit batter in the 18th season. They have hit 34 sixes so far. After him, Suryakumar Yadav has hit 26 and Shreyas Iyer has hit 25 sixes.
